Warm Audio releases RingerBringer and Warm Bender pedals

February 13, 2024 · 4 sources

Warm Audio released two pedals, the RingerBringer ring modulator and the Warm Bender fuzz, as reported on February 13, 2024. The RingerBringer is priced at $219 and the Warm Bender at $199¹².

The RingerBringer recreates the 1998 Moog MoogerFooger MF-102 Ring Modulator in a smaller format, with comparable controls and rear ports, according to Guitar Pedal X. It offers LFO, carrier, mix, frequency and drive functions. Its controls are LFO amount, a square/sine waveform rocker switch and rate; modulator mix, a LO/HI rocker switch, frequency and drive; and level, LFO and bypass LEDs. Rear ports are audio in and out, rate, amount, mix and frequency, LFO out, carrier in and out, and 9V DC at 100mA¹.

The Warm Bender is a selectable three-circuit Tone Bender-style fuzz pedal². Warm Audio says the NOS 76 setting is based on an original MKI Tone Bender circuit, the NOS 75 setting delivers a Mark II Professional-style tone, and a third setting uses a proprietary silicon 3-transistor circuit². The pedal is made with 100% through-hole construction using NOS germanium transistors for the NOS 75 and NOS 76 settings, and adds a SAG control that starves the voltage². Guitar Pedal X lists controls as attack, level and a version switch, with a sag switch for 9V or 6V, 9V DC at 6mA, and battery power¹. Gearnews reports the NOS76 setting uses OC76 and SFT337 transistors and the NOS75 setting uses three OC75 transistors³.

Prices differ between sources. Warm Audio lists an MSRP of $199 for the Warm Bender², and Guitar.com gives $199⁴, while Gearnews lists $169.00³. Guitar Pedal X gives $219 for the RingerBringer¹. Guitar Pedal X also reports that a teardown found "ordinary grey market knock-offs" rather than NOS transistors in the Warm Bender, a claim Warm Audio's page does not address¹².